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Draft letter. Takes a lively interest in his application for a professorship at Durham. Remembers him gratefully as his coach for mathematics while at Cambridge.

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HS/4/157
Earliest possible date
January 1831
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Miles Bland, January 1831, HS/4/157, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_157/draft-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-miles-bland, accessed on 22 July 2026

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